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Hardware

MCE Offers 160GB PowerBook HDD Upgrade

MCE Technologies, LLC (MCE) is now selling a 160GB 5400 RPM hard drive for the PowerBook, iBook and Mac mini. The MCE MobileStor 160GB/5400RPM drive (US$399) is the highest capacity 2.5-inch drive available for these machines and includes an 8MB cache buffer. The drive’s engineers have developed a method of standing data bits on end […]

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Intel

Core Duo and Battery Consumption

From a mailing list posting by Jason Watkins, SAS Computing: Here are some facts about “Core Duo” that may shed some light on the questions of battery consumption in the new MacBook Pro laptops. “Yonah,” the code-name that Core Duo previously went under, features 151 million transistors on a single die, dual core chip. Each […]

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MacBook Pro

MacBook Pro Performance Analysis

Craig Wood conducted a performance analysis of the pre-production MacBook Pro while at Expo and posted his findings. On the last day of Macworld 2006 I revisited the prototype MacBooks and performed a series of tests to measure the new system’s performance. I conducted four media-related tests on the new MacBook Pro and previous G4/G5 […]

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Intel

Apple Commercial Controversy: Round II (Updated 2x)

The Spunker has a blog entry calling out Apple for their latest television commerical. Apparently the new TV ad is almost an exact copy of a music video by The Postal Service for their song “Such Great Heights.” Check out this video of the Apple television commercial side-by-side with The Postal Service video. (Thanks J. […]

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Macworld Expo

Macworld Expo 2006 Impressions

I spent a couple of days on the show floor this year. Here are some observations: * The show is almost completely dominated by iPod accessories, ranging from “things you can plug your iPod into” (including cars) to various kinds of iPod “luggage.” * Almost lost in all the frenzy around the new Intel-based Macs […]